The Big Idea

2005

01. Robugs: Swarms of tiny robotic insects

Robugs, biologically based software, the GeoWeb, transgenic art and other hot frontiers in technological innovation.

For our final installment of this year's Big Idea series, we invited technology journalist and co-editor of BoingBoing David Pescovitz, an affiliate researcher at the Institute For The Future, to do what he does best -- point to important and mind-blowing developments in the world of technology.

01. Robugs: Swarms of tiny robotic insects

02. Hacking DNA: Creating life one BioBrick at a time

03. Location, location, location: The GeoWeb

04. Maker mind-set: DIY technology

05. Biology as art: Genetic creativity